Paramount Global chair and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone thanked investors and her company’s co-CEOs on Thursday during the company’s abbreviated earnings call ahead of its merger with Skydance Media that closes next week. She recalled her father, the late Sumner Redstone, who grew Paramount into a media powerhouse, and as the August 7 closing date approaches said she believes the David Ellison company will be a good steward of the assets. “I believe I can take it on faith that many on this call understand the enormous importance of this business to my family and to me,” she said on...